Till: M|;h;|\ \\h ANTInl ! MAN 65 



walk erect, have a higher int >l>m<-nt than 



the man-like apes, int which would n.,t yet posaeM 



ilate speech. Tin- Javan form teemed to fulfil 



Haeckel's conception and has mm. to ! known as the 



1'ithrcanthi. 18. Th- liirures show the Pitln- 



CMMtM* 



ania. ' 



canthropns skull with its low an-h. We may now com- 



th. rithrcantliropus aii<l N :iia witli 



the highei;Cro-Magnon type and with the skulls of an ape 



and modern man. This comparison is il <1 by fig- 



1, \\liit-h indicates in a rough way how t scov- 



eries hn\ ally Hlh-d th gaps in our knowledge of 



the descent of man from < -arli. -r am -tral forms. 



In 1907 a human jaw of great antiquity \\a- di-<-o\ 

 in the sands of the Maun- K'i\vr n-ar 1 Irid.-llierg. This 

 jaw lay in un<! i stratified sand at tlu> depth of 



ahout sixty-nine feet from the summit of the dep<- 

 It is \vry ditfnvnt from that of the modern man, being 

 , low, massive, and devoid of a chin, feat ur 



